Personal Essay: A Sport That Reflected My Life

In life, everyone has that one thing that makes him or her the happiest that he or she could be. In my life, that one thing was gymnastics. From when I was about two years old until I was in tenth grade this sport was what kept my life moving. I would wake up and go to school and spend my entire day thinking about how excited I was for practice at the end of the day. This sport taught me a lot about perseverance, time management, and so many other things. Unfortunately, this is not the thing that impacted my life most. The one thing influenced my life most was an injury. It was the end of November in 2014, my sophomore year in high school. Diving season had just ended and it was my third day of gymnastics practice for the season. I was doing a routine on the balance beam. My favorite skill was coming up and …show more content…
It was my fourth practice of the high school season and I was doing a routine on the balance beam. I had made it through everything in my routine and it was a solid and clean routine. All I had left was the dismount. I took a deep breath and started walking toward the end of the beam and I did my round off to start my dismount. CRUNCH! My big toe joint had ruptured again! I crawled down stairs to the trainer’s room and was crying and almost screaming until the door opened and a freshmen wrestler walked into the room and asked me if I was all right since he could hear me crying from upstairs. I explained my injury and how the same exact thing had happened to me a year and a day ago. I ended up needing to get surgery again over winter break. After that third injury, my podiatrist and my parents told me that it was time for me to say goodbye to the sport that I had loved with all of my heart for the past thirteen years. This decision drove me into a depression. I did not know what to do with my life since I could no longer do the one thing I loved